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indistinct, the former oblique ; a postmedial blue-grey line angled 

 at vein 5, the area beyond it irrorated with blue-grey scales, and 

 with traces of a submarginal dentate line. Abdomen reddish. 

 Hind wing fuscous ; cilia rufous. 



In other specimens the collar is yellowish chestnut ; fore wing 

 with the stigmata and outer area bright ochreous, with hardly any 

 blue suffusion. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Eorp. 40 millim. Type in B.M. 



1791. Polia dentata, n. sp. 



Differs from endroma in the basal and outer areas of fore wing 

 being suffused with grey instead of blue; the antemedial line 

 recurved towards inner margin, the reniform smaller and lunulate ; 

 the postmedial line more rounded and slightly dentate between 

 veins 3 and 6 ; the submarginal line irregularly sinuous. 



Hob. Sikhim, 10,000 feet (Elwes). Exp. 38 raillim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



1792. Polia castanea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 126, pi. 4, fig. 24 ; C. $ S. 



no. 1974. 



d 1 Head and thorax dark red-brown, powdered with white 

 scales. Pore wing chestnut ; the area just above vein 2 and the 

 median nervure as far as the postmedial line suffused with deep 

 red-brown and powdered with bluish-white scales ; the orbicular 

 oblique and slightly defined by bluish-white scales ; the postmedial 

 line dark, angled below the costa, sending dark streaks along the 

 veins to the cell and obsolescent towards inner margin ; the outer 

 margin irrorated with bluish-white scales. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous ; underside with cell-spot and a postmedial line. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 40 millim. 



1793. Polia microsticta, n. sp. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing 

 ochreous ; the costal area suffused with pinkish brown to near the 

 apex ; the subbasal and antemedial w r aved and postmedial lunulate 

 lines indistinct ; the orbicular and reniforrn small, with slight black 

 outline and some dark suffusion between them ; the marginal 

 line oblique and arising from the outer margin below the apex ; 

 the area beyond it irrorated with brown and white ; a marginal 

 series of black specks. Hind wing dark fuscous ; cilia of both 

 wings pinkish brown. Underside of hind wing with cell-spot and 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. Sikhim (Moller). Exp. 36 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



1794. Polia griseirufa, n. sp. 



cT . Head and thorax bright rufous, abdomen paler. Fore wing 

 bright rufous ; the subbasal, ante- and postmedial waved lines 



